Agriculture Machine Display for Work Plan Confirmation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing agriculture support systems face difficulties in confirming work plans and contents on agriculture machines without a mobile terminal, making it challenging to determine if agricultural tasks can be performed.

Innovation Solution

An agriculture support system that includes a display device on the agriculture machine to acquire and display work plans created by a support device, using communication modules for data transmission, and evaluation tools to assess the compatibility of the work plan with the machine's capabilities, allowing operators to easily confirm execution details.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If work plans are transmitted only to mobile terminals, then operators can check work plans and contents on portable devices, but operators cannot confirm work plans on agriculture machines without mobile terminals

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveAbility to check work planVSAvoidConfirmation capability on agriculture machine
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

A communication unit is introduced as an intermediary component on the agriculture machine to receive and display work plan information. This mediator enables the machine itself to function as a display terminal, allowing operators to confirm work plans directly on the agriculture machine without requiring a separate mobile terminal device.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If work plans are created and transmitted to mobile terminals, then work planning functionality is provided, but it becomes difficult to determine on the agriculture machine side whether work contents can be performed

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveWork plan information availabilityVSAvoidMachine compatibility assessment
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

An evaluation unit is implemented that compares work plan information with the agriculture machine's actual capabilities (such as engine power, working width, and other specifications). This feedback mechanism provides operators with information about whether the work plan is suitable for the specific machine being used, enabling informed decision-making about work execution.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP3751501B1Agriculture support system
Publication Date: 2023.11.08 KUBOTA CORP
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AI summary

To enable an operator and the like to easily confirm items relating to execution of an agricultural work on an agriculture machine side. An agriculture support system includes: an agriculture support device (90) having: a work creator portion (91) to create an work plan of an agricultural operation to be performed by an agriculture machine; and a communicator portion (95) to transmit the work plan from the work creator portion (91); and a display device (80) provided in the agriculture machine, having: a machine information obtaining portion (83) to obtain machine information of the agriculture machine; a plan obtaining portion (81) to obtain the work plan transmitted from the communicator portion (95); an evaluator portion (84) to compare the work plan with the machine information obtained by the machine information obtaining portion (83) and to evaluate the work plan; and a display portion (82) to display an evaluation result provided by the evaluator portion (84).